Maryland transportation money projected to start to run short in 2 years

Maryland’s pending list of ambitious transportation projects — the Red Line in Baltimore, a Southern Maryland transit way and a new American Legion Bridge over the Potomac River — faced a brutal financial reality Wednesday: Officials said there’s not enough money to pay for projects already approved. The state’s transportation trust fund is $2.1 billion short of what’s needed to build the existing $21 billion plan of transportation projects on the books, state officials said.